Action and Ethics in Aristotle and Hegel: Escaping the Malign Influence of Kant
, by Pendlebury,GaryNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780754636397 | 0754636399
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 1/28/2006
Pendlebury alleges that abstraction and rationalization have had a strong and malign influence on normative moral philosophy in the 20th century. Criticizing writers such as Hare, Rawls and Scanlon for pursuing a conception of moral philosophy that bears little resemblance to the way in which human beings actually think and conduct themselves. Pendlebury, instead, suggests a 'Virtue Ethics' inspired by Hegel's and Aristotle's accounts of action as a corrective to this trend, showing that moral activity is historically and socially based and must address the formed character of individual agents.